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by Brad Ricca


  Kipling, Rudyard

  Klein, F. A.

  Knights Templar

  ladders, used underground

  Landau, David

  Lee, James

  Le Queux, William

  Treasures of Israel

  locusts

  London Mission to the Jews

  Lowther, Juliet

  Lucas, George

  Luke, Harry Charles

  Macasdar, Agop

  mapping the tunnels

  Siloam tunnel system

  Marduk

  markings of triangles

  Marlborough, Duke of

  Martineau, Mr.

  Martineau & Reid

  Mary, Queen

  “Master Architect”

  Maurice, Natalie

  Melander, Henning

  Melek, M’lek, Molok (king)

  Mesha, king of Moab

  Micha (in Frankfurt)

  Millen, Johan

  false narrative about the expedition

  Moabite Stone

  Molech (a god)

  Molok (idol god)

  MOLOK (word)

  Monastery of St. Onuphrius

  Montefiore, Simon Sebag, Jerusalem: A Biography

  Morley, Earls of

  Moses

  burial place of

  bust of

  tomb of

  Moses, Mr.

  Moslem cemetery outside Haram

  Mother of Steps

  Mount Nebo

  Mount of Olives

  Mount Olive

  Mount Ophel

  Nabi Musa festival

  name of God

  National Trust

  Nebuchadnezzar

  Nehemiah

  Obolensky, Serge

  Odin

  Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF)

  Palestine Museum

  Parker, Edmund

  Parker, Jack

  Parker, John

  Parker, John St. Aubyn

  Parker, Margaret (mother of Monty)

  Parker, Mark (7th Earl of Morley)

  Parker, Mary

  Parker, Montague (Monty)

  arrives in Jerusalem

  arrives in the Near East

  bag of notes and papers

  “confession” of

  dealing with Hoppenrath

  dealing with Juvelius

  digging under the Dome

  fundraising for the Syndicate

  handling workers strike

  invited to join the Syndicate

  later years

  letter to Constantinople (“confession”) re the Dome incursion

  letter to The Times

  in London

  meets Juvelius

  meets the Vesters

  on Mount Ophel

  in newspaper accounts

  overseeing the work

  papers of, safeguarding

  sends Juvelius to meet a rabbi

  at Silwan

  studies Juvelius’s theories and cipher

  two rules of

  visits Gehenna

  works with Vincent

  Parker expedition

  antiquities found by

  later years of members of

  Millen’s false narrative about

  photograph of

  sources on

  Parker family

  Parker Family Archive

  Parker Mission House

  Parker-Moore, Agnes

  Passover

  Petermann, Julius Henry

  Philistines

  Phoenicians

  language

  Phythian-Adams, W. J.

  Poole, Miss

  Pool of Siloam

  Puharich, Andrija

  rabbi that Monty recommended that Juvelius visit

  and break-ins

  radium

  Raiders of the Lost Ark (film)

  rainy season, and digging

  Reich, Ronny

  Rhodes, Cecil

  Ribblesdale, Lord

  Riza Bey, Ali

  Riza nur Bey

  Rothschild, Baron Edmond de

  Rothschild, Baron Leopold de

  Roundtable Foundation

  Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm

  Saltram House

  Sami Bey

  Sampson (friend of Jacob Eliahu)

  Satan

  Savignac, Raphaël

  Sayce, Henry

  Schick, Mr.

  Schlottman, Konstantine

  Scythia

  Second Temple

  Sennacherib, king of Assyria

  Shalev-Khalifa, Nirit

  Shapira, Moses

  Shukron, Eli

  Siloam inscription

  Siloam Tunnel

  Silwan

  mayor of

  Solomon

  Throne of

  Tomb of

  Treasures of

  Solomon’s Temple. See First Temple

  South Kensington Museum

  Spafford, Horatio and Anna

  Spafford, Jacob

  Spafford, Noel (adopted)

  Spafford Children’s Center

  Spielberg, Steven

  Spion Kop

  stairs to underground

  strike of workers

  Stump, Harry

  Syndicate

  clippings and notices from

  concerned about leaks

  formation of

  members of

  not welcome in Palestine

  recruiting adventurers

  reports to

  tablet, unengraved, found underground

  Talmud

  Tara, Ireland

  Tarsha, Mr.

  Temple. See Dome of the Rock; First Temple; Second Temple

  Temple archive

  Temple Mount

  Titanic sinking

  tombs, to be avoided in digging

  Topheth

  tunnel from Siloam Pool to Gihon Spring

  tunnels. See Hezekiah’s Tunnel; Siloam Tunnel

  Turkish parliament

  Turks

  Tutankhamen

  Um ed-Derej

  Uotila, Pertti

  Urim and Thummim

  Uzzeh

  Valley of Moses

  Valley of the Dead Sea

  Vanderbilt, Consuelo

  Vaughn, Frederick

  vaulted ceiling

  Vester, Bertha

  Vester, Frederick

  Vester, Horatio

  Vester, Jacob

  Victoria, Queen

  Vincent, Louis-Hugues

  Virgin’s Fountain

  Von Bourg, Otto

  Wadi Ayun Mûsâ

  Wadi-en-Nar

  Wailing Wall

  Walsh, Mr. (engineer)

  Ward, Cyril

  Warren, Charles

  archeological diggings of

  in Boer War

  discovery of Hezekiah’s Tunnel

  exploring underground

  mapping of tunnels

  and the Moebite Stone

  police inspector on the Jack the Ripper case

  Warren’s Shaft

  Weill, Raymond

  Well of Souls

  Wenton, parliamentarian

  Wilson, Clarence

  workers (diggers)

  strike by

  World War I

  Young Turks

  Zanaf, Shaykh Khalil al-

  Zechariah

  Zionism

  Zucchi, Antonio, Aristippus and His Companions

  ALSO BY BRAD RICCA

  Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

  Super Boys

  Olive the Lionheart

  About the Author

  BRAD RICCA is the author of the Edgar Award–nominated Mrs. Sherlock Holmes, Olive the Lionheart, and Super Boys, winner of the Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction. He won the St. Lawrence Book Award for American Mastodon. Ricca lives in Cleveland. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Epigraphs

  Persons in Their Order of Appearance

  The Key

  Part One: The Cipher

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Part Two: Underground

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  Chapter Twenty-One

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  Part Three: The King in Copper

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  Chapter Twenty-Four

  Chapter Twenty-Five

  Chapter Twenty-Six

  Chapter Twenty-Seven

  Chapter Twenty-Eight

  Chapter Twenty-Nine

  Chapter Thirty

  Chapter Thirty-One

  Chapter Thirty-Two

  Part Four: Raiders

  Chapter Thirty-Three

  Chapter Thirty-Four

  Chapter Thirty-Five

  Chapter Thirty-Six

  Chapter Thirty-Seven

  Chapter Thirty-Eight

  Chapter Thirty-Nine

  Chapter Chapter Forty

  Chapter Forty-One

  Part Five: A Black Star

  Chapter Forty-Two

  Chapter Forty-Three

  Chapter Forty-Four

  Chapter Forty-Five

  Chapter Forty-Six

  Chapter Forty-Seven

  Chapter Forty-Eight

  Chapter Forty-Nine

  Epilogue

  Photographs

  Notes

  Bibliography

  Acknowledgments

  Index

  Also by Brad Ricca

  About the Author

  Copyright

  First published in the United States by St. Martin’s Press, an imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group

  TRUE RAIDERS. Copyright © 2021 by Brad Ricca. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.

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  Names: Ricca, Brad, author.

  Title: True raiders: the untold story of the 1909 expedition to find the legendary Ark of the Covenant / Brad Ricca.

  Description: First edition. | New York: St. Martin’s Press, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2021016199 | ISBN 9781250273604 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250273611 (ebook)

  Subjects: LCSH: Parker Expedition (1909–1911)—History. | Morley, Montagu Parker, Earl of, 1878–1962. | Ir Daṿid (Jerusalem)—Antiquities. | Excavations (Archaeology)—Jerusalem. | Jerusalem—Antiquities. | Ark of the Covenant.

  Classification: LCC DS109.8.C54 R53 2021 | DDC 933/.442—dc23

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